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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Billy Mahon?
(a) He is pushed off the bridge.
(b) He is shot.
(c) He is framed for murder.
(d) He is robbed.

2. Where are the boy's father's sisters sent to live after the death of their parents?
(a) Their father's brother.
(b) Their mother's sister.
(c) Their brother.
(d) Their grandfather.

3. In Chapter 2, the boy remembers being trapped where?
(a) In the secret passage of Grianan.
(b) In the church after service.
(c) In the basement of the distillery.
(d) In his sister's bedroom.

4. What makes the boy feel distinctly uncomfortable in Chapter 1?
(a) The book he reads in the dark.
(b) His mother's depression.
(c) His sympathy for the Protestant police.
(d) What he finds in his sister's wardrobe.

5. After his parents die, Eddie leaves. Where does everyone think he went?
(a) He skipped town with his girlfriend.
(b) He went to Grianan.
(c) He went to America.
(d) He enlisted in the IRA.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which three males are attacked at the end of the chapter?

2. What do people believe lay below the ruins of Grianan?

3. In Chapter 1, what causes the boy's mother to become inconsolable?

4. What happens to the boy when the police come to search the house?

5. What does Brother Regan teach the boys at the school in December of 1948?

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